Monthly Archives: February 2018

The Consumers’ Checkbook, an independent nonprofit consumer group, operates a service used by many thousands of customers each year to get great prices on new cars. You can use the same general approach and get a very good price on your own. What follows is advice that comes out of the experience of this service. You may have had friends tell you about sitting eyeball to eyeball for hours with new car dealers. It’s nonsense. They wasted their time. The only leverage any customer has with a new car dealer is the possibility that he or she will walk out-and either buy a car from another dealer or not buy one at all.

Choosing the car

Most public libraries and major bookstores have extensive information to help you select the type of car that will fit your needs. Three good sources of comparative information on cars, each of which is published annually, are The Car Book by Jack Gillis, Consumer Reports magazine’s April issue, and the December issue of Kiplinger’s Personal Finance Magazine.

Getting a firm price commitment

CarPrices.com offers their PriceWar service, participating dealers in your area bid to sell you the new car you select and there is no cost for this service. The Consumers’ Checkbook offers a similar service called CarBargains (800-475-7283), which will get at least five dealers in your local area to bid to sell you the new car you choose, using the methods described in this article. You’ll get a price commitment sheet for each dealer. There is a fee for this service.

Many credit unions, local American Automobile Association (AAA) chapters, membership warehouse stores, and employee associations have lists of dealers who have agreed to sell cars at a fixed markup from invoice. You can contact local organizations to see what programs are available. The dealers that participate in these programs may or may not pay to be listed, depending on the specific program’s arrangements.

Getting general car price information

Most libraries and bookstores, and many banks and credit unions, have books published by Pace Publications, St. Martin’s Press, and others showing list prices and invoice prices for new cars, and showing resale value estimates for used cars. Automotive News, available in some public libraries, gives information on rebate incentive programs.

The olden classics of yesteryear have always attracted attention from the car fanatics whether it is vintage, antique or limited edition models. With broader and more modernized times like these, it is difficult to find someone driving limited edition models on the roads. The Internet mega resource has provided easy search options where you can find thousands of cheap old classic cars for sale online without ever getting out of your home. There are varied classic car communities online providing information on latest updates on antique car sales, offers on older cars, older engines, accessories, etc.

The online car community had varied categories, street rods, classic trucks and various other cars parts and accessories. Thousands of cars are transacted each day through online website portals that do not charge you any transaction fees. The customized search options stated on the websites helps you to browse or search your cars according to the makes, models and year of the you might be looking for. You can sell and buy unlimited number of cars, browse through its various categories that would help you to get your choices, the categories include classic trucks, street rods, antique models, cheap old classic cars for sale and varied other categories. There are various states across the United States that offer various events happening through out the year where you can showcase your old antique model or buy cheap old classic cars for sale. The top 10 popular car events takes place in the states of Ohio, California, Indiana, Missouri, Texas, Illinois, Michigan, Washington, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. These are the places where millions of people gather each year to showcase their antique cars, some for sales, some for purchases.

The research library over the Internet states that the best and widely popular antique models traded online includes 1966 Chevrolet Caprice, 1966 Chrysler New Yorker, 1960 Plymouth fury and 1964 Chevrolet Nova. There are some of the best and most wanted high profile events happening in different states of United States that offers the best classical car buying and selling offers. The inventory provides detailed information where you can search the best-suited cars you had always been looking for; the online treasures are just unlimited you have to just keep searching for the right opportunity and time for it to arrive. Some antique cars automotive portals also helps you sell your classic car by bargaining with other car of your choice. Get rolling today in your new-old antique classical cars.

What are strut bars? Are strut bars useful for cars? Performance strut bars for your here must be great help to you.

Why do we say strut bars (also known as strut braces) are the simplest automotive accessory? The answer is it is just a brace with one circle on each end of the brace itself. Yes, just a simple bar unlike a strong side step bar with non-slip pads or a bull bar with fog lights. A strut brace is a mostly aftermarket car suspension accessory for the purpose of increasing the car’s ride ability by providing extra stiffness between the strut towers.

A full set of strut bars normally contains a front upper bar, a front lower bar, a rear upper bar and a rear lower bar. They work on the same principle. Let’s take a front upper brace as an example. The two circles are tied to the top of the two front strut tower respectively so that the front brace connects the towers. This effectively prevents the shock towers from flexing excessively during cornering. As such, steering responsiveness will be improved and less slop will be caused by the flexing of the chassis. The final effect is the improve of car’s ride stability.

These simple aftermarket accessories are really nice parts that are really worthy of installing on your car. Automotive aftermarket offers a wide selection of strut braces for car users to choose from. High quality stainless steel is adopted as the material of these parts. Although they are simple designed, fashionable styles and multi-color circles make the braces look good and beautiful.

So, the Winter is upon us and new car registrations have been counted and tallied. Regardless of the automotive industry posting worries of car sales being down this year it would still seem that there is cause for celebration by some of the leading automotive brands.

Apart of the new car registrations leader-board Top 10 are car automotive brands BMW, Vauxhall and Ford. As well as BMWs clear win in the ‘coolest brand’ stakes voted by online users within the UK and Birmingham this year they have two models that have in fact overlapped each other in the running.

The new Ford S-max was awarded for Technical Innovation this year adding to the winning hype already created by the leading manufacturer Ford, who also take the crown as the clear winner in 60 plate new car registrations. The popular and sparky Ford Fiesta is way ahead with over 19,000 Fiestas’ being registered last month- and almost 5000 more vehicle units being bought than that of the sporty Vauxhall Corsa.

Vauxhall have taken up third place, way ahead of the family Ford Focus. Vauxhall has been confirmed as the clear runner-up with Astra new-car registrations at a high of 66,104 units and the Vauxhall Corsa on 65,396.

The leader of the pack is clearly the Ford Fiesta with 85,941 units this year to date, however amongst the celebrations there are the disappointments too.